So how many of you have bought more than one By Killian fragrance?

Do not worry, this isn't an attempt to bash any scent from this line OR bash anyone wearing them, I've received samples of 3 scents from their line from a Basenoter and I simply want to know how many from the By Killian line other Basenoters have bought full bottles of, and which do they think are full bottle worthy.

I'm sitting here with Cruel Intentions dabbed on my wrist and sniffing it reminds me of Lorenzo Villoresi's Alamut, I find Cruel Intentions to have the same comforting musk cloud that Alamut has. I do like the scent, however, I'm not sure why they decided to call it Cruel Intentions as I honestly find nothing sinister about it, to me its quite tame in a little Ms. Goody Good fashion AND I feel they're grossly overpriced for the first bottle.

About the name... maybe they mean that the wearer (he or she) is completely vulnerable to "Cruel Intentions" as they're adrift in this soothing relaxing cloud of olfactory comfort The other samples I have are Straight to Heaven and A Taste of Heaven, I'll be testing these soon.

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I love Straight to Heaven and A Taste of Heaven. I can find things boozy and woody more afforable than STH. ATOH is just a more refined eloquent Caron pour Homme. At $225.00 for 50ml they need to be unique enough for me to shell out the bucks. The By Kilian program of after you shell out $225.00 you can get a refill for $115.00 is a joke for me. After 50ml of 90% of most frags I'm already tired of it and have moved on to something else. By kilian is marketing there product to "signature scent" people who will wear there stuff for 20 years. That customer is not me. So I think the By Kilian line in general has nice frags - the 1st rate ingredients being a major plus in my book - still has not got me to buy a bottle.

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I'll be buying a bottle of Straight to Heaven after the incredibly positive response I got when I tested it.
I haven't tested an others, but I think only a Taste of Heaven looks like it would appeal to me.

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i have a sample of Cruel intentions and its everything the name stands for...its awesome! the first wear i was like, hmm wow..it smells very real....starts of pretty thin. but turns out to be a very cloudy mist of chocolate, booze, rose, leather kinda feel....i used to hate gourmand...but this...this my freinds is the real thing...i love it...and i dont think it's overpriced...sometimes life is just cruel...by the time i wore it the second and third time, i was/am totally addicted to it. cant wait to try out the rest of the series...a big thumbs up...

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sampled all, did not buy any bottle-sized frag
Nice packaging is not enough to shell out, while I found A Taste of Heaven and Cruel Intentions as most close to my ideals of Lavender and Woody Oud scents.

Well, I`d wait till the business will be stopped (as IUNX before) and will buy it on discounts!

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Originally Posted by javagreen

The price for the first bottle includes the cost of the decorative box it comes in and all that jazz. The refills are where it's at.

Well, by my calculations that says that you're paying $225 - $115 = $110 for a fancy box. Maybe I should change occupations and start making fancy boxes for a living, because that's pretty good scratch. What would happen if you showed up with your own bottle and tried to get a refill? With all due apologies to those who have shelled out for this amazing elixir, this just seems like pure marketing BS to me. I'm sure someone at this company is soiling themselves laughing.

The obvious thing to do here is to amass a group of people who like this juice and are willing to designate one of them to be the Keeper of the Holy Fancy Box. They amortize the cost of the Holy Fancy Box across all participants in some equitable fashion, and all but one keeps the juice in their own container. Alternatively, the Holy Fancy Box rotates ownership between participants, sort of like the Security Council Presidency of the United Nations.

I'm going to try this stuff the next time I go to The Scent Bar. I've got to see what all the fuss is about.

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yup tht equation doenst sounds fair...i would'nt mind if someone sold a decant of it. the juice is too good to be ignored. i literally felt pampered. and well, like all LVMH products, they were aimed at a certain class and not stingy buyers like myself

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Originally Posted by jenson

yup tht equation doenst sounds fair...i would'nt mind if someone sold a decant of it. the juice is too good to be ignored. i literally felt pampered. and well, like all LVMH products, they were aimed at a certain class and not stingy buyers like myself

Let me be clear that I do not have a problem with a company siphoning as much cash as possible out of people for their juice. To do so would be disingenuous of me, since I charge as much as possible for my labor too. I just think that consumers ought to push the limits to make companies work for their business and force prices lower. And doing an "end run" around the first-buy-our-fancy-box-then-we'll-play-nice policy by a sort of collective purchase is well within the purview of fair play. I consider it to be merely a variant of selling decants, of which I'm strongly in support.

Anyway, which one of these fragrances would be the best one to try first? Being an oud fan, I'm guessing Cruel Intentions is the way to go. I'm amazed that a company charging this much for their juice is actually providing the perfumer's formula on their website. That says that the quality of the ingredients is a big part of the cost, which is probably not as much the case with other fragrance houses.

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a good alternative is to buy the travel edition is $135 for the first time and after that is only $70 for the refill, and also after buying the first bottle you can buy whatever you want, i bought first back to black, and after that I bought refills of straight to heaven and also a refill of a taste of heaven, so I think is a good alternative and is not that expensive.

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Wow mattie - let's cool it with the 2 year old bumps.
However, on the topic of this old thread - it's funny that I a post before I bought Straight to Heaven up there. In the time since, my sucker self has accrued 4 Kilians and Back to Black is high on my list. If Pure Oud didn't cost 3 arms, it would be too.

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Originally Posted by b3t0_1972

a good alternative is to buy the travel edition is $135 for the first time and after that is only $70 for the refill, and also after buying the first bottle you can buy whatever you want, i bought first back to black, and after that I bought refills of straight to heaven and also a refill of a taste of heaven, so I think is a good alternative and is not that expensive.

I personally prefer to just buy the $70 refills and use my own atomizer. So I have refills of Back to Black and Straight to Heaven.

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I bought a large decant of Back To Black, may at some point buy a decant of Pure Oud. I have no intention of buying a bottle at those prices, and frankly, as my collection grows, I use less from each bottle, so decants increasingly will do me for my more expensive desires.

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Another option for those disturbed by By Kilian's pricing is the new Discovery Set.
For $140 you get 7.5mL of all eight fragrances in the L'oeuvre Noire collection.
What that means is you get a nioce decant of everything but Pure Oud and Rose Oud.
It is an ideal way to sample the entire line and for much less money than even a bottle would cost.

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I am a big, big BK fan. I have Straight to Heaven in the beautiful bottle, Beyond Love in the even more beautiful travel spray atomizer and Taste of Heaven, Cruel Intentions, Love and Back to Black in the 1oz refills. Didn't like Pure Oud that much to purchase the $400 bottle. I also see that it's available in a $350 3.4oz refill and for Rose Oud as well. Pure Oud smelled exactly like Original Aoud by Montale so I won't even purchase the refill, but Rose Oud might change that!

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I'd happily own full bottles of Love & Tears and Beyond Love, and Rose Oud too, though due to price and the fact that there are roses I love more, I can't see the latter being mine in the foreseeable future.

I really enjoy the Kilian line. They're not daring, but they're classy and well-made.